Writing to Change the World: Anna Seghers, Authorship, and International Solidarity in the Twentieth Century

Marike Janzen

doi:10.1017/9781787441750

This book begins to recover the global history of solidarity as a principle of authorship, taking Anna Seghers (1900-1983) as an exemplar and reading her alongside prominent contemporaries: Brecht, Carpentier, and Spivak.

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Anna Seghers, Authorship, and International Solidarity in the Twentieth Century

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

Introduction: Authorship and World as Shared Time
pp 1-19

1 - Solidarian Authorship after Socialism: From the Anna Seghers Stipendium to the Anna Seghers Preis
pp 20-44

2 - Shared Time in the Comintern Era: Seghers and Brecht
pp 45-75

3 - State Writers and Solidarity: Seghers and Carpentier
pp 76-98

4 - Mute Messengers: Solidarity and the Subaltern in Seghers and Spivak
pp 99-127

Conclusion: Authorship as History and Norm
pp 128-132

Notes
pp 133-154

Bibliography
pp 155-166

Index
pp 167-170

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